Camille Paglia misses good preaching.
written by Julie R. Neidlinger 2 comments link this postI wrote a post a while back talking about how distressing it was to realize that Biblical references in art and writing were being missed by a younger generation that hasn't been taught the Bible. (I'm still trying to find that post in my archives...)
I saw the tip of this back in the art history classes in college, during the mid-1990's.
Rod Dreher shares a little from a recent interview with Camille Paglia.
Camille said that she's been really disturbed over the last five years by the lack of knowledge among her students of basic Biblical concepts, characters, themes and motifs -- the forgetting of which makes so much Western art, literature and culture opaque.
The money quote:
"[...] There's no preaching anymore. The Bible is one of the West's foundational texts, and they don't know it anymore."
--Camille Paglia
"There's no preaching anymore." Bingo.
Go read the full post. The comments section is its own fun.
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2 Comments:
Julie:
What disturbed me the most was that none of the upper middle class white kids did not know who Moses was.. For God's sake you would think they would have seen "The Ten Commandments" once or twice. That is required TV movie viewing along with "The Wizard of Oz" isn't it??
Sad, very sad.
By 
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13/4/07 12:56
You would think everyone would get the Moses reference of all references. But I guess not...
Even confusing him with Charlton Heston would be better than having no clue at all.
By 
Julie, at
13/4/07 13:30
